Swivel cord-tube.



Patented Dec. 18, 1917.

6 {lgVENTO/ij- ATTORNEY E. CLEARY.

SWIVEL CORD TUBE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 31, 1917. 1,250,283.

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EDWARD CLEABY, OF BRIDGEPOET, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE CONNECTICUT WEB AND BUCKLE COMPANY, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

SWIVEL CORD-TUBE.

Specification of Letters Yatent. Patented Dec. 18, 1917 Application filed March31, 1917. SerialNo. 158,998.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD CLEARY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bridgeport, county of Fairfield, State of Connecticut, have invented an Improvement in Swivel Cord-Tubes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates generally to suspenders, with more particular reference to suspenders of the type in which a clasp is interposed between each of the usually elastic straps which pass over the shoulders of the wearer and a cord having loops or eyelets at its ends which provide buttonholes for securing the same to the trousers, said cord having freedom of longitudinal movement through the clasp to make the article self-adjustable to various positions of the body and thus relieve the cord as well as the buttons to which it is secured from undue or excessive strains. This has heretofore to a large extent been accomplished by swiveling what is known as the cordtube to the clasp for the strap or elastic webbing through the provision of a separate pivot pin, and the principal object of the present invention is to simplify this construction and thus effect a saving in cost of manufacture without sacrifice of dependability and wearing qualities, largely through the elimination of the separate pivot pin and the provision of an integral swivel cord tube in the manufacture of which I am enabled to do away with several operations in the assembly of the parts of the device, to say nothing of producing a more satisfactory and dependable structure.

My invention will be more readily understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which I have shown a practical and convenient embodiment thereof and in which Figure 1 is a side view of a device embodying my invention, showing a portion of the web or strap designed to pass over the shoulder and a part of the trousers band;

Figs. 2, 3 and 4. are detail views showing my improved cord tube after each of several steps in the process of manufacture thereof;

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of what may be termed the clasp proper;

Fig. 6 is an enlarged sectional view, taken substantially on the line 66 of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 7 is a side view of my improved swivel cord tube applied to a modification of the preferred form of clasp.

' Referring now to the drawings in detail, numeral 11 designates the lower portion of one of the usually elastic straps or webs of a pair of suspenders, designed to be passed over the shoulder of the wearer, which is looped through the slot 12 in the clasp 13, and adjustably secured to itself in various positions above said clasp by means of any one of a number of different forms of buckles (not shown). The clasp 13 includes a depending and usually somewhat ornamental lip 1 1 in which is provided the aperture 15 through which, in prior constructions, was passed the swivel pin or pivot for the cord tube 16.

The cord tube of my invention is made from a suitably formed sheet metal blank 17 (Fig. 2) at the ends of which I strike up the bosses 18 and 19, each in substantially the shape ofa truncated cone, the former being slightly larger than the latter and both provided with apertures whereby, when the blank is bent to substantially the form shown in Fig. 4, the clasp 13 may be interposed between the ends thereof and the bosses 18 and 19 passed one within the other and through an aperture 15, where the edges thereof are turned around the edge of the aperture, as shown in Fig. 6, to loosely engage the same and provide a swiveled joint. The combined bosses therefore form a pivot or swivel for the cord tube 16, the wider middle portion of the blank 17 having been given the curvature shown in Figs. 1 and 7 so as to hold the cord 20 in the usual manner and permit the latter to be readily slipped in the same to compensate for or equalize strains due to the bending of the body of the wearer. The ends of the cord 20 are provided with the usual looped eyelets 21 21 adapted to engage buttons 22 22 on the trousers band 23 in a common and well-known manner.

It will be seen that the swivel cord tube of my invention is exceedingly simple in construction, has no separate pivot pin to' increase the time and trouble of assembling the parts, to say nothing of the possibility of the pin becoming loose or detached in use, and is thoroughly dependable.

The clasp 24 shown in Fig. 7 differs from that shown in Figs. 1 and 5 in that it is formed from a single strand of wire having a loop 25 through which is passed the bosses l8 and L9 in the same manner that they were passed through the aperture 15 in the clasp 13.

Other modifications of minor details of my improved swivel cord tube will doubtless readily suggest themselves to those skilled in the art to which it appertains, and I therefore do not desire to limit my invention to the specific construction herein shown and described.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a device of the character described, the combination, with the clasp for the strap, and the cord adapted to be secured to the trousers band, of a cord tube formed from an integral sheet-metal blank bent upon itself and provided with interfitting bosses which combine to be engaged within suitable aperture in said clasp and form therewith a swivel joint.

2. In a device of the character described,

the combination, with a clasp provided with an aperture, of a cord tube formed from a blank of sheet metal and provided near its ends with perforated bosses the larger of which is passed throughthe aperture in the clasp, the smaller boss being then passed within the larger and the edges of both bosses turned outward to form a swivel connection between the clasp and the cord tube.

3. A cord tube formed from a'blank of sheet metal and provided near its ends with 35 EDWARD OLEARY.

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